I'm not one of those people who gets particularly bothered by receiving spam. Sometimes, they amuse me, actually.
The porn ones tend to be the most rife with humor potential. I got one that was entitled "Hot Asian Sex Going On Right Now." The first thought that popped into my head was "Hmm...that DOES explain all the Asians."
They do seem to run in cycles, though. For a long time, I got ones that were trying to lure me in by claiming to be some kind of investment advice. It makes me picture some stodgy old rich guy whose grandson is asking him how me made his fortune. "Well, my boy, some random fuckhead on the internet told me to invest in something, so I did it."
After that, of course, came the "Get a bigger dick" spam. When someone actually wants the one that I got, I'll concern myself about it's size.
The current crop is the old Nigerian Scam. I woke up this morning, and all 4 of the emails I got in the night were telling me I'd acquired money that I didn't ask for. Since this is just the beginning of the day, I know more are coming. And just like how everyone playing Monopoly says "Can you imagine if all this money was real?" (Yes. You'd have $15140.), I thought it'd be fun to calculate just HOW much money I'd rack up in a day if all my spam offers were legit. I won't actually be clicking links or replying, just adding it all up at the end. From the four I got this morning, I calculate $8.6 million. (Assuming that the Nigerian Scam specific ones are promising the standard 10% of the dead person's millions.) Details will follow.
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